Mark, Your seconds example worked great. I assume the first example you provided would replace multiple occurenences of the text if it existed? The second example doesn't do this and is exactly what I was trying to resolve.
Thanks for your help! Warren On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 11:34 AM, Mark Schonewille <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Warren, > > The selectedChunk is a reference to particular characters in a field. Also, > the selectedChunk of fld x isn't a reference the actual text in that field > but rather a string containing that reference. > > For example, if you tell Revolution to replace "xyz" with "abc" in "char 1 > to 2 of field 1" it isn't going to work. > > You might try this. > > put the selectedText into mySelection > replace mySelection with "<b>" & mySelection & "</b>" in field x > > or > > put the selectedText into mySelection > put "<b>" & mySelection & "</b>" into the selectedChunk > > I have tested this and both methods work. > > -- > Best regards, > > Mark Schonewille > > Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering > Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com > Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer > > Try the new URL shortening service http://qurl.tk > > Op 25 jan 2010, om 18:20 heeft Warren Kuhl het volgende geschreven: > >> I am trying to replace a selected chunk of text with the selectedchunk >> of text and some html codes. I tried the code below and the software >> doesn't like this. >> >> replace the selectedtext of field "field" with "<b>" & the >> selectedtext of field "field" & "</b>" in the selectedchunk of field >> "field" >> >> I could use: >> replace the selectedtext of field "field" with "<b>" & the >> selectedtext of field "field" & "</b>" in field "field" >> ...but the replace would replace all occurrences of the text in my >> field...instead of just the selectedchunk. >> >> How would I accomplish this? I assume it is something simple. >> >> Warren > > > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution > _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
